Remote Sensing Technology and Application, Volume. 39, Issue 1, 45(2024)

Estimation of Volume based on Fusion Point Cloud of Terrestrial and UAV LiDAR

Junfeng ZHU1、*, Qingwang LIU2,3, Ximin CUI1, and Wenbo ZHANG1
Author Affiliations
  • 1China South-to-North Water Diversion Group Middle Line Limited Liability Company Henan Branch,Zhengzhou 450016,China
  • 2Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques,Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing 100091,China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information Technology,National Forestry and Grassland Administration,Beijing 100091,China
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    The Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in forest inventory. It is quite difficulty to describe the complex vertical structures of forest using the terrestrial or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) LiDAR or laser scanning, individually. The complete spatial structure of forest can be obtained by combing the Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and UAV Laser Scanning (ULS). The TLS and ULS point cloud were registered and fused to extract the trunks of individual trees. The random Hough transform was used to fit the point cloud of the trunk in segments. The taper equation was fitted using the diameters of trunk segments and the differential quadrature method was used to calculate the volumes of individual trees. The volumes of individual trees were accumulate to get plot volume. Compared with the calculated value of the binary volume model, the results showed that the accuracy of calculating the volume of individual tree based on the fusion point cloud was better than that of the terrestrial point cloud, the R2 can be increased by more than 2%, and the RMSE can be reduced by 0.01 m3. The R2 and RMSE were 0.98 and 0.87m3 for the plot volume, which calculated by the combination of taper equation and differential quadrature method. Among them, the R2 and RMSE of Cunninghamia lanceolata volume were 0.96 and 0.07 m3, for Eucalyptus, the R2 and RMSE were 0.93 and 0.07 m3. Among the three types of plots: easu, medium, and difficult, the volume R2 of Cunninghamia lanceolata and Eucalyptus in easy and medium plots were all above 0.94, the RMSE was about 0.07 m3, but the R2 of the volume results in difficult plot was below 0.9. The TLS and ULS fusion point cloud can more finely measure the forest spatial structure, and better meet the needs of forest resource survey applications.

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    Junfeng ZHU, Qingwang LIU, Ximin CUI, Wenbo ZHANG. Estimation of Volume based on Fusion Point Cloud of Terrestrial and UAV LiDAR[J]. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2024, 39(1): 45

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jun. 14, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 22, 2024

    The Author Email: ZHU Junfeng (zhu_junf@163.com)

    DOI:10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2024.1.0045

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